Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)

Rachel Carson was a US marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. This sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the depths. Late in the 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation, especially some problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was the book Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented share of the American people. Although Silent Spring was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides. It also inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. source: Wikipedia

Known for
The Sea Around Us (1951)

Silent Spring (1962), first serialized in 3 parts in the New Yorker. Naturalist Sir David Attenborough has said that Silent Spring was probably the book that had changed the scientific world the most, after the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952–1964: An Intimate Portrait of a Remarkable Friendship (1995)

Inspiring a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Rachel Carson, Voice for the Earth (2007), by Ginger Wadsworth, biography for young readers